Museums Quotes - Page 22

• Churches are not museums that display perfect people. They are hospitals where the wounded, hurt, injured and broken find healing.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Hurt, Healing, People

  Twitter post from Jun 19, 2016

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• I'm extremely profane, unconsciously so, when I see something great for the first time; I don't know why, but beauty and profanity are related to me in the same way. It may be that I want to think of art in the vernacular, but I have no control over what comes out of my mouth when my eyes take in great beauty...it might just be the reason I avoid going to museums with elderly ladies.

  Vincent Price

  Art, Eye, Thinking

  Vincent Price (1959). “I Like what I Know: A Visual Autobiography”

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• My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall. Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Wall, Communication

  "'Shame on Me'". Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. November 24, 2011.

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• Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.

  Ansel Adams

  Art, Eye, Oneness

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• Having plenty of time and all the museum's funds at my disposal, I put myself on a regime to buy one picture a day.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Buying, Regimes, Fund

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• Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.

  Henri Rabaud

  Music, Country, Piano

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• Finally, in the Mississippi state Senate, earmarks are often hidden in bond bills, which I have voted against many times, because our bonded indebtedness is too high and we simply can't afford it. For example, building museums in the middle of a recession makes little sense.

  Chris McDaniel

  Littles, Bills, Example

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• Who else but the maestro of mathematical creativity, Clifford Pickover, to curate a museum of Strange Brains and write biographies of the scientific geniuses who formerly owned them? I'll never look at a pigeon, a pearl, or a Wheatstone bridge the same way again.

  Mark Frauenfelder

  Writing, Creativity, Bridges

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• Anyone who has walked through the deserted palaces of Versailles or Vienna realise how much of a part of the life of a nation is lost when a monarchy is abolished. If buckingham palace and windsor castle were transformed into museums, if one politician competed against another for president of the republic, Britain would be a sadder and less interesting place. Our politicians are not men such as could challenge more than a thousand years of history.

  William Rees-Mogg

  Men, Years, Interesting

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• They have our bundles split open in museums / our dresses & shirts at auctions / our languages on tape / our stories in locked rare book libraries / our dances on film / The only part of us they can't steal / is what we know.

  Chrystos

  Book, Library, Auctions

  Chrystos (1988). “Not vanishing”, Press Gang Pub

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• Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.

  Edward Abbey

  World Literature, Pay, Professors

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.36, RosettaBooks

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• Art must not be concentrated in dead shrines called museums. lt must be spread everywhere – on the streets, in the trams, factories, workshops, and in the workers' homes.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Art, Home, Culture

  "Shrine or Factory?" by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1918.

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• The world's becoming a museum of socialist failures.

  John Dos Passos

  World, Becoming, Socialist

  John Dos Passos (1970). “The theme is freedom”

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• A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

  Victor Hugo

  Fighting, People, Cannons

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• Our spending priorities are clearly in question when we are increasing bond indebtedness on pet projects such as museums while our infrastructure is allegedly failing. Mississippians are spending more on basic needs than ever. They don’t need their state government making that worse.

  Chris McDaniel

  Government, Priorities, Pet

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• Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and art galleries and in great works of art; it is innate in us and can be galvanized into activity by the power of creative endeavour in our own day, and in our own country, by our own creative individuals in the arts.

  Lawren Harris

  Country, Art, Real

  "The best of the Group of Seven".

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• Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.

  Susan Sontag

  Grandparent, Essentials, Generations

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.62, Macmillan

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• The gold standard, in one form or another, will prevail long after the present rash of national fiats is forgotten or remembered only in currency museums.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Long, Gold, Forgotten

  Hans F. Sennholz (1979). “Age of inflation”

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• I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Checkpoint Charlie.

  David Hasselhoff

  Wall, Photo Of Me, Hanging On

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• It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself.

  Brad Pitt

  Lovely, Walking

  "Brad Pitt: A Life So Large" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. May 20, 2013.

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• If you go to Florence, it has all surface beauty, but like Venice, it's simply a museum of Renaissance times. Los Angeles is raw, uncouth and bizarre, but it's a place of substance. It has more new horizons than any other place.

  Werner Herzog

  Venice, Florence, New Horizons

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• Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Men, Feet

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• Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust Museum in Washington. We would never accept the Japanese putting up a site next to Pearl Harbor. There's no reason for us to accept a mosque next to the World Trade Center.

  Newt Gingrich

  Holocaust, Mosques, World

  "Newt compares mosque to Nazis". www.politico.com. August 16, 2010.

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• Stay in these rooms for years and years, live on forever in a glorious museum.

  Lydia Millet

  Years, Forever, Rooms

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• The road to a clinic goes through the pathologic museum and not through the apothecary's shop.

  Sir William Gull, 1st Baronet

  Medicine, Drug, Shops

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